Any database that has gone into production is a legacy database according to Tom Kyte. I agree, but to me some databases give me associations to legacy more often than others. In a post at the OraStory blog Dom complains about companies that hire contractors for a maximum of one year, and due to the fact that it takes half a year to understand the business and the data, you hardly get to show what you can deliver.
When you start with Oracle Data Guard you have three sources of useful information: The Data Guard Concepts and Administration manual, which is quite good, other peoples experience, and after some time your own. The manual does not include all the mistakes one can do, nor what many really don’t use (like the data guard broker; not everybody would leave switchover, or worse failover to a robot).
A Sunday morning is a perfect moment for starting your blog. Not sure where this is going, or if it’s going. Here the other day I found a solution to a problem I thought others may have encountered. I figured that my own blog would be a place to write it down. At least I can find the solution again if I make the same mistake twice.
